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BALL CLUB SOKE.
Peculiar and Unfortunate Disagreement
at Furman.
Greenville. April 2z.?The ball
game scheduled for this afternoon
between Furman and Trinity was not
played on account of Furman's having
become piqued at the laculty in
its action over the Furman boys go-!
ing to Spartanburg Wednesday on
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the early morning iraiu msiectu ui,
waiting tor the 2 o'clock train as
ordered. In consequence of their
disobedience all members of the
Furman team were penalized in their
monthly marks, and the resignation
of manager asked for.
Concerning the trouble Prof. B. E.
Geer this afternoon said:
'The members of the ball team
had been notified that they must attend
classes Wednesday morning and
IK permission had been given for the
boys to go to Spartanburg on the 2
o'clock train. Instead the team left
at 9 o'clock contrary to instructions
and when they came back the resignation
of the manager of the team
was asked for. by the faculty and
each offending student penalized 10
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points on an muuwi> iuai&.o.
Prof. Geer further stated that all
members of the faculty urged the
?boys to play Trinity this afternoon,
but the team appeared to be obdur[
ate, refusing point blank to enter the
game. Instead of playing the university
boys raised the $100 forfeit,
';y which naturally went to Trinity. It
| is not known whether Furman will
jjjJ . play any more games this season or
not.
!/ ' Empress Eugenie's Wedding Day.
Ife - Even on her wedding day, the Emprbss
Eugenie received a sign of ill
'/-y. omen, according to Clara Morris in
p.- the Woman's Home Companion for
May. The market women of Paris
--presented her with a mountain of
W0I61S on cne day oi ner mamagc
to Louis Napoleon. Miss Morris
if'88781
-v \ "And those market women?they
^V. ioiled over! They yelled and push.
ed and crowded into the palace gar|kV
/ <lens." They screeched and screamed
for the empress, until at last a window
opened, and Eugenie stepped out
W-X: on the balcony, and ever eager to
fe" . please, she held in her hands a great
ll^/'mass of the violets the market wohad
sent her.
"Then suddenly one old fish wife
shrieked out at those of the commit.tee,
'Pigs! Idiots! It is the flower
sorrow you have sent to her!'
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||?f the color of mourning that you send
?* .> bride of the emperor! Violets,
^^pBEKple violets to a bride! Pigs,
Idiots! Devils! It is an omen?a
te'ftfgn of evil!'
VAnd then the fight began! Oh,
\Vr?on Dieu! They are terrible! They
tear one another like wild beasts!
- J The gendarmes try hard to make orll^Vder,
when a voice up above us say
out clear and gentle, 'Oh, soldiers,
Ht:S don't hurt them!' And the idea that
|p^?ny Boldier on earth could hurt a
?>: dame des Halles was so funny that
?NI everybody stopped fighting to laugh.
^ "^ 'And they laugh and laugh, and wipe
Bfe off the blood, and slap the gendarmes
,aad say, 'Don't hurt us, messieurs?
And they dance and shout,
and the beautiful empress stand now
88: ?hjt the emperor, and bow, and throw
Quiets to the crowd, and all below
'Vive l'lmperatrice!' And she
ian^le.and smile, and so retire. But
* that old witch was right! Yes,
ll^i madame, though the violet was the
p;;-' floorer of the Bonaparte, it is the
!%& flnwPT nf sorrow, not fit to send a
1M bride! It was an omen, and given
g?.rr at-the Tuileries, it pointed to Chiselhurst!"
Brains.
f- .i. Thomas L. Masson, in Lippincott's
0! Magazine, thus '' wittily discourses
, upon a fruitful theme: ' '
TBrains are common to all parts of
thO; country, and traces of them have
P? y even been discovered in summer at
Lenox, Bar Harbor and Newport.
g&\ "TThey are originally used to obtain
' money, but when money is obtained
j|&by them It usually takes their place.
'The quality of brains varies in
I' different. localities. Mixed with ginj||^;
ger, they become very valuable,
i' A ' With a spiiie they are a necessity in
every household.
0?;i \ *At one time they influenced literature,
but the discovery was made
^ ; that literature could do without
Rinr>P tbon thpv Viava Wn nl
most exclusively devoted to advertis"Brains
are employed in various
p enterprises.
T^ey make bridges, railroads and
other systems of transportation. They
also create capital, and are used extensively
in evading the law. They
mix with water and gasoline, but are
r absorbed by alcohol.
"Brains are bought and sold in the
open market. They may be traded
in on the exchange in. Washington
and Albany or in other political centers.
The best quality, however, are
not traded in. Indeed, oftentimes
they are not even heard of until long
after they have passed away."
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THE GHOSTS GIVE TIPS.
TELL TAR HEELS WHERE
' BURIED TREASURE LIES.
And Now North Carolina Farmers
Are Dicing Up the Wiiole Face
of the Earth.
High Shoals, N. C., April 21.?
They've been hearing more strange
noises in the thin woods on the right
bank of the CataAvba, northwest of
here, and if you drive out that way
you will see a lot of fresh holes in the
eround. Tliev were made by search
ers for hidden gold, for men live
hereabouts who think there are
spirits that tell where money, bushels
of it, has been buried. The new holes
tell of the interpretation of those
imaginary messages.
Digging was resumed a little way
back from the river about two
months ago and has been going on
spasmodically ever since. Mr. Kale,
superintendent of the cotton mill
' here, was the first townsman to no!
tice it. *
A couple of weeks ago he drove out
to see some property the mill company
owns some distance up the
stream. His horse shied at something
at the side of what for convenience
may be called the road,
though it was not much like one.
Kale, looking that way, saw a mound
of earth heaped up beside a deep
hole.
About twenty rods further on he
came across another hole just like
the first. On the other side of the
road was a third hole. Then Kale
knew what he had encountered, for
he had seen the same thing in these
parts seven or eight years ago.
He told about it when he got back
$o town?though not within the hearing
of the mill hands, for he didn't
want any such exodus as might follow
the rekindling of the superstitions
of these people?and two college
boys, who had stopped here
while tramping across the State from
Chapel Hill, decided that they'd like
to see the workings of a spirit so
powerful as to make the very Indolent
farmer folk work hard at digging.
The Chapel Hill hoys saw what they
wanted; and they don't want to see it
again.
"Ever see a -man struggle and
sweat and pray for something you
know he can't possibly get?" one of
them asked the next day. "Well,
you don't want to. First it seems
awfully funny; then it gets pathetic.
"Larry and I had the luck to strike
the scene of one of those gold hunt?rvn?nfJnTio
Wa nliTYiKod O trOP
1U5 upci auv/uo. fl V UtUiVVu M V* vv
so as to be out of sight and waited.
"We thought they'd never show
up. It must have been 10 o'clock before
they did. First there were three
men; it was dark and we couldn't
see them, for they had no lights, but
we could hear 'em talking. They
made so much noise at first that we
couldn't make out what they said.
Then we caught:
" 'You'all bettah set down there
now and stay still.'
"When they had got settled it was
awfully still. We didn't dare move.
I guess it must have been half an
hour without a stir from those fellows
under the tree, and then Larry
reached over to feel as if I was there.
I wasn't expecting it, and my nerves
were so taut that I started and came
near losing my balance.
"A small branch .broke and
tumbled down. Larry said, 'Damn!'
in a sort of whisper, and I thought
sure we were in for trouble, for the
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men unaer me iree jumyeu uy auu
one of them shouted, 'Did you heah?'
" 'Yes,' another said in a low tone.
'It said "dam," just as plain as could
be.'
" 'Well,' said the first speaker,
'that means towards the dam, I reckon.
Light the lantern, Sales, and
we'll see if there's some other thing
around here to go by.'^
"The lantern was lighted and the
three men began to scruntinze the
ground, one of them on his knees.
" 'Here's the pointer!' shouted the
kneeling man, and they gathered
around the lantern tilted so the
light shone on the ground. 'This was
sent to show us the way; I heard it
fall?didn't you all?'
"They said they did. One of them
stretched out his hand toward it.
"Don't you dare to touch that!' exclaimed
the man who held the lantern.
'We all got to go by that.
.LooKi it's pointed straignt to tne
dam, and that's what the spirit said,
"dam.'"
"Sales placed his heel carefully at
the tip end of the branch I had
knocked down and marched off,
counting his steps, 'One-two-threefour-five,'
and stopped.
44 'Give us your stick,' he said, and
the other man handed him something
which he stuck in the ground.
"You never saw a North Carolina
farmer work so fast in your life as
those fellows did then. They dug and
dug and dug, all three of them trying
to get into the hole when it was
about two feet deep, and every once
in a while we could hear them cussing
each other for being in the way.
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"I learned later that a legend in
those parts was that a farmer having
followed a mysterious message he
received one night in the woods dug
up a kettleful of gold coin of an anj
cient mintage and that he struck it,
drew it out and skipped away with it
be:ore his companion got back with
anotlier shovel for which he had
I Vif.cr cant Cn it ivacn't n n V WfllldPl"
these fellows didn't want to take any
chances with each other.
"A few minutes later we heard
I somebody running through the
I woods. The newcomer was a woman.
! She stopped at the edge of the hole
land screamed:
" 'You all's made a mistake. Stop!
Stop!'
| "The men looked up with expressions
of surprise and asked her what
she meant.
[ " 'Job Sales,' she shouted, 'I
knowed you'd make a fool of yer1
self if you didn't let me come along
and I tol' you so, didn't I? > Well,?
she was out of breath and spoke with
difficulty?'well, the spirit tol' me in
a dream you was in wrong place,
an' then it woke me up so I could
come an' stop you. The spirit knocked
six times on th' floor, and that to
me six was right. Did you count six
steps?"
" 'No, he counted five,' volunteered
one of them. 'That's right, too.'
"Yer jest as big a fool as Job
Sales, every bit,' scoffed the woman.
Don' you know it's long after midnight
and this is th' sixth of the
month?'
"Damn you, Sales,' shouted the
other man. 'You ain't got no sense.'
" 'You saw me count five,' retorted
Sales with great heat 'It's as much
your fault as mine.'
" 'Here, Job,' interrupted the woman
authoritatively, 'stop that rowing,
and you, too, Birch. You all
ain't goin' to get nothin' by fightin.'
If you all got the message clear tonight
get to work right. What did
the spirit tell you ail?'
"The three men, who had climbed
out of the hole, all tried to explain
at once about Larry's 'damn' and the
falling branch pointing toward the
river dam, and Mrs. Sales was sure
that it was an unusually good spirit
to be so specific, and then to tell her
about the mistake her fool husband'
had made so she could correct it before
it was too late?for no message
of one night is good for the next.
So going back to the branch with
the lantern and counting off six paces
in a slightly different direction, for
Mrs. Sales showed them that they
hadn't read the pointing of the
branch correctly either, the men got
to work digging again.
"They dug faster than before for
they were sdrer now that they were
over the right spot, and Mrs. Sales
stayed there urging them on. Once
she fell onto her knees beside the lantern
and prayed loud and long, beseeching
the Lord's guidance of the
shovels and especially Job Sales'.
That selfish plea made the others mad
and there would have been a fight if
Sales hadn't obeyed their orders and
compelled his old woman as they
called her, to amend her supplication
by recanting her special appeal for
her man.
"Pretty soon we heard a rooster
crow, and we were mighty glad, I
can tell you. It was getting tiresome
watching those men shoveling and
sweating and praying and quarreling.
It was touching, too, for they were so
much in earnest.
"Daylight was just beginning to
show when they gave up the Job,
climbed out of the second deep hole
and concealed the shovels in the
brush near our tree. They were a
sad faced lot as they walked off, but
they didn't look ashamed over their
performance. They seemed to think
they had had done something very
proper and probably felt just as Mrs.
Sales did when she said:
" 'If you-all hadn't made that mistake
you'd a' found it all right.' That
moo loof fhincr itTA hoapH
"When they were out of sight we
got down and looked into the holes.
Larry jumped down into the second
one dug. He could just reach the
upper edge of it when he stood on the
bottom.
"No, there wasn't anything in it
but dirt and some stones?just like
any other hole, like all the six or
seven holes in that neighborhood.
Like as not they all were dug under
similar circumstances, though what
signals and messages were found or
heard in the other cases I don't
know. They probably had less basis
than the one we provided unintentionally."
Plan to Drain Everglades.
Washington, April 23.?Maj. Jas.
B. Cavanaugh, corps of engineers,
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engineers at the war department, left
here to-day for Jacksonville, Fla., to
consult with George Spalding, corps
of engineers, and the representatives
of the State of Florida, with regard,
to the plans for the drainage of the
Everglades of Florida, especially
with reference to the effect of the
proposed work on Lake Okeechobee
and other navigable waters in the
State.
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PAYS GREAT FIXE.
Nearly Two Million Given Up by Waters-Pierce
Concern.
Austin. Texas. April 24.?The final
chapter in ti<- Oration of the State
against the ; : :rs-I ierce Oil Company.
the p:. :..iriit of probably the
largest fine o'er assessed against a
corporation, nearly $2,000,000, was
enacted in a spectacular manner this
afternoon. From the American National
bank one-half the amount was
delivered in two automobiles at the
State treasury. Then, at breakneck
speed, the cars were driven to the
Austin National bank and a similar
burden of currency taken on, and
similarly disposed of. In telescope
valises those in charge of the payments
carried bills of different denominations
up the capitol steps.
wnen tne nne-Dearers reacnea me
treasury department doors were locked
and Attorney Davidson and other
officials were sent for, and the money
counted.
The fine, $1,808,753.95, was paid
with 718 $1,000 bills, 160 $10 bills
and the remainder in smaller currency.
Of the total amount the
State is enriched by $1,718,266.30,
and Prosecuting Attorney Beady will
receive the balance of his fee.
ALABAMA MOB HANGS NEGRO.
Confessed Rapist is Lynched Near
Bessemer.
Birmingham, Ala., April 25.?
John Thomas, a negro, was quietly
lynched by a small crowd of men
about one mile below Bessemer to
night at 9 o'clock. The negro was being
taken to jail in Bessemer when
he was overtaken by citizens, who
made short work of the prisoner by
hanging him to a tree in the woods.
After the hanging the crowd quietly
went back to their homes.
Thomas committed criminal assault
upon a lady near Parkwood,
about noon to-day. The news spread
rapidly and the citizens began the
pursuit. The negro was found near
the scene of the crime late this afternoon,
at the home of a farmer for
whom he worked. He was taken before
the justic^ of the peace and a
warrant was sworn out for him. The
citizens, numbering probably not
more than a dozen, took the negro
before his victim, who positively
identified him. Her two children
also identified the negro. There had,
up to this time, been no open evidences
of violence, and a well known
farmer named Andy Roy, started
with the negro for Bessemer.
All went well until Roy and his
prisoner got within about a mile of
Bessemer. Here they were* overtaken
by the citizens. Thomas finally
confessed to the crime, and said he
did not mind going to Jail, where he
had served several years, and that he
did not mind going back.' He only
asked them to spare his life. The
response was a rope, and he was
swinging to a tree the next moment.
The body is still swinging in the
high wind at midnihgt, and the coroner
states that he will make an investigation
to-morrow.
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